N.J.'s badly-needed road salt is stuck on a dock in Maine, due to federal red tape

1:15 PM,
Feb. 19, 2014

The seemingly endless parade of winter storms has almost emptied the salt barn at the Monmouth County Department of Public Works in Freehold. The county is mixing salt and sand to stretch salt supplies.

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Efforts to get 40,000 tons of badly needed rock salt to New Jersey by ship from Maine hit a giant ball of federal red tape, preventing salt-starved towns and counties from replenishing supplies this past weekend.

UPDATE:
Ship load of road salt to dock in N.J. tomorrow

State Department of Transportation officials had arranged for the salt to be transported from the docks in Maine to New Jersey on Feb. 7 and had an empty ship large enough to carry the salt to Port Newark. ...